Judges 12:8

New Century Version

After Jephthah died, Ibzan from Bethlehem was a judge for Israel.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Ibzan, who was from Bethlehem, judged Israel after Jephthah

Hebrew Names Version
After him 'Ivtzan of Beit-Lechem judged Yisra'el.

King James Version
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

Lexham English Bible
After him Ibzan from Bethlehem judged Israel.

English Standard Version
After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

New English Translation
After him Ibzan of Bethlehem led Israel.

Amplified Bible
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

New American Standard Bible
Now Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel after him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
After him Ibzan of Beth-lehem iudged Israel,

Legacy Standard Bible
En ná hom het Ebsan, uit Betlehem, Israel gerig.

Contemporary English Version
Ibzan, the next leader of Israel, came from Bethlehem.

Complete Jewish Bible
After him Ibtzan of Beit-Lechem judged Isra'el.

Darby Translation
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

Easy-to-Read Version
After Jephthah, a man named Ibzan was a judge for the Israelites. Ibzan was from the city of Bethlehem.

George Lamsa Translation
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

Good News Translation
After Jephthah, Ibzan from Bethlehem led Israel.

Literal Translation
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After him iudged Israel one Ebzan of Bethleem,

American Standard Version
And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.

Bible in Basic English
And after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
After this man, iudged Israel one Ibzan of Bethlehem.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.

King James Version (1611)
And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem iudged Israel.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And after him Abaissan of Bethleem judged Israel.

English Revised Version
And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
After Jephthah, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Abethsan of Bethleem, that hadde thretti sones, and so many douytris, demyde Israel aftir Jepte;

Young's Literal Translation
And after him Ibzan of Beth-Lehem judgeth Israel,

Update Bible Version
And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.

World English Bible
After him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.

New King James Version
After him, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

New Living Translation
After Jephthah died, Ibzan from Bethlehem judged Israel.

New Life Bible
Ibzan of Bethlehem ruled Israel after him.

New Revised Standard
After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there judged Israel, after him, Ibzan of Bethlehem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
After him Abesan of Bethlehem judged Israel:

Revised Standard Version
After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

THE MESSAGE
After him, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters in marriage outside his clan and brought in thirty daughters-in-law from the outside for his sons.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel after him.

Contextual Overview

⁸ After Jephthah died, Ibzan from Bethlehem was a judge for Israel. ⁹ He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He let his daughters marry men who were not in his family group, and he brought thirty women who were not in his tribe to be wives for his sons. Ibzan judged Israel for seven years. ¹⁰ Then he died and was buried in Bethlehem. ¹¹ After Ibzan died, Elon from the tribe of Zebulun was a judge for Israel. He judged Israel for ten years. ¹² Then Elon, the man of Zebulun, died and was buried in the city of Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. ¹³ After Elon died, Abdon son of Hillel from the city of Pirathon was a judge for Israel. ¹⁴ He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He judged Israel for eight years. ¹⁵ Then Abdon son of Hillel died and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mountains where the Amalekites lived.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ibzan: am 2823, bc 1181, An, Ex, Is, 310, "He seems to have been only a civil judge to do justice in North-east Israel."

Bethlehem: Genesis 15:19, 1 Samuel 16:1, Micah 5:2, Matthew 2:1

Reciprocal: Ruth 1:1 - the judges Ruth 2:1 - Boaz

Cross-References

Genesis 4:26
Seth also had a son, and they named him Enosh. At that time people began to pray to the Lord .

Genesis 12:12
When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This woman is his wife.' Then they will kill me but let you live.

Genesis 12:14
When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was very beautiful.

Genesis 12:15
The Egyptian officers saw her and told the king of Egypt how beautiful she was. They took her to the king's palace, and

Genesis 12:16
the king was kind to Abram because he thought Abram was her brother. He gave Abram sheep, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

Genesis 13:4
and where he had built an altar. So he worshiped the Lord there.

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba and prayed to the Lord , the God who lives forever.

Genesis 28:19
At first, the name of that city was Luz, but Jacob named it Bethel.

Genesis 35:3
We will leave here and go to Bethel. There I will build an altar to God, who has helped me during my time of trouble. He has been with me everywhere I have gone."

Joshua 7:2
Joshua sent some men from Jericho to Ai, which was near Beth Aven, east of Bethel. He told them, "Go to Ai and spy out the area." So the men went to spy on Ai.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. There were two Bethlehems, one in the tribe of Zebulun, Joshua 19:15 of which some think this man was; and another in the tribe of Judah, the city of Jesse and David, and of the Messiah; and Josephus says x, Ibzan was of the tribe of Judah, of the city of Bethlehem; and because Boaz was of the same place, and lived in the times of the judges, the Jewish Rabbins y are of opinion that he is the same with Ibzan; so Jarchi and Ben Gersom.

x Antiqu. l. 5. c. 7. sect. 13. y T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 91. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ibzan of Bethlehem - Some have fancied him the same as Boaz Ruth 2:1 of Bethlehem-Judah. Others, from the juxtaposition of Elon the Zebulonite Judges 12:11, understand Bethlehem in the tribe of Zebulon Joshua 19:15.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 12:8. And after him Ibzan — It appears that during the administration of Jephthah, six years - Ibzan, seven years - Elon, ten years - and Abdon, eight years, (in the whole thirty-one years,) the Israelites had peace in all their borders; and we shall find by the following chapter that in this time of rest they corrupted themselves, and were afterwards delivered into the power of the Philistines.

1. WE find that Ibzan had a numerous family, sixty children; and Abdon had forty sons and thirty grandsons; and that they lived splendidly, which is here expressed by their riding on seventy young asses; what we would express by they all kept their carriages; for the riding on fine asses in those days was not less dignified than riding in coaches in ours.

2. It does not appear that any thing particular took place in the civil state of the Israelites during the time of these latter judges; nothing is said concerning their administration, whether it was good or bad; nor is any thing mentioned of the state of religion. It is likely that they enjoyed peace without, and their judges were capable of preventing discord and sedition within. Yet, doubtless, God was at work among them, though there were none to record the operations either of his hand or his Spirit; but the people who feared him no doubt bore testimony to the word of his grace.